The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-09

more tnan one man la Dalton, as the
result of his official zeal. However,
the jury when impanelled. was COM
posed of six non-Mormons from Frisco
and vicinity, VIZ: Sloan. Moore,
Collins. Fitzgerald, Forg;e and Bowen;
from Silver Reef, Woodward, Turrill,
Nichols and Barnes, and from Marys-
vale, Messrs. Johnson and King. All,
when interrogaled, admitted know
edge, but having got their knowledge of
the homicide only from the columns
of the Tribuns. where promptly passed
for cause. All were also closely ques-
toned as to whether they had read the
published affidavits of witnesses, but
answering In the negative, were doubly
acceptable.
The first witness, DR.. F. A. King,
testified that he was called to attend
Mr.. Dalton immediately after the
latter was shot; that the bullet wound
as examined and probed by him showed
that the leaden missile had penetrated
through the left kidney and ranging
slightly upward and had lodged
somewhere III the body; that he believed
that the spinal column was shattered by
the shot, and was positive that death
resulted from the gunshot wound. This
witness got badly mixed in describing
the anatomical features of the bullet
wound. Doubtless the doctor GU was
somewhat rusty in his "reminiscences of
lectures with the human cadaver for
subject.
The succeeding witness was a young
man, exceedingly hard of hearing,
named Collins Clark. Mr. Clark's evil
dence
WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT,
in that he was next to Dalton at the
time the latter received the fatal bullet;
witness testified that Dalton was en-
gagged in putting three head Of cattle
into drove which he, Clark, Brig. and
John Brown and a man named Halter
man were driving, with the intention of
taking them on the western desert; that
when opposite Pages house, he CLARK !
heard some talk on the roadside, and |
looking up, saw Thompson and OrtOn |
standing close by, and inside Pages |
fence; he then heard someone call out, !
and then closely following upon the CALL |
a shot; that he then saw Dalton, who |
was riding a horse bareback, convul- |
siYely clutch the horses neck !
with his arms and then tumble |
10 the ground; Immediately after
the shot, saw Thompson with a gun |
at his shoulder aimed at the falling |
man. Brigham Brown testified the |
same as Clark; he (Brown), his brother |
John Clark, Halterman and Dalton |
were nearly abreast, yet slightly in ad-
vance of each other. drying a herd of
stock past Pages house; that he saw |
took no particular notice of them, when |
he heard the word Haiti followed by |
the report of gun; saw Dalton fall off |
bis horse. q
John Brown, one of the young stock |
men, said that he was somewhat in adj |
vance of the rest of the party; that. as
he passed Pages house he saw Orion |
rush out of the rear door of the dwell |
ling, with pistol in his appraised hand (; |
heard him call Halt, MIR. Dalton" He |
then heard a shot, and upon looking, |
saw that Thompson and not orion, had |
shot Ed Dalton on the other side of the |
street.
The foregoing is a brief synopsis of
the rather verbose testimony of the
witnesses above named. It is said that |
of dozen more witnesses have |
yet to be examined. The apparently
TAME EFFORTS OF THE PROSECUTION
to make case has given rise to a |
peculiar and somewhat suggestive criti-
cism on the streets, to the effect that
the whole case as thus far presented
seemed as it was all defense and no
prose one attorney remark
ing that the counsel for the people
seemingly led their most important
witness away from their most pertine nt
points of evidence, as, for instance, the
oft-repcated assertion that the CON-
mand to ''halt'' and the fatal shot were
almost simultaneous, thereby giving
the unfortunate man Dalton absolutely
no opportunity whatever to surrender,
had he been ever so much disposed.
This omission to interrogate on that
most important point was very marked
and little singular. to say the least.